Jon Kyl

Jon Llewellyn Kyl (24 April 1942-) was the US Senator from Arizona (R) from 3 January 1995 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Dennis DeConcini and preceding Jeff Flake) and from 5 September 2018 (succeeding John McCain). He previously served in the US House of Representatives (R-AZ 4) from 3 January 1987 to 3 January 1995 (succeeding Eldon Rudd and preceding John Shadegg).

Biography
Jon Llewellyn Kyl was born in Oakland, Nebraska, the son of congressman John Henry Kyl. He was born and raised in Nebraska and later lived in Iowa, and he worked as an attorney and lobbyist in Phoenix, Arizona before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995 and in the US Senate from 1995 to 2013. He was the fourth-most conservative Senator, serving as a Republican. He left the Senate in 2013 and worked as an attorney in private practice, working to shepherd the US Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. In 2018, Governor Doug Ducey nominated Kyl to serve out the remainder of the late John McCain's Senate term.